¹⁸ Even ^(A)when they had made for themselves a golden^[a] calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ ^(B)and had committed great blasphemies, ¹⁹ you ^(C)in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. ^(D)The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, ^(E)nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. ^20 (F)You gave your good Spirit to instruct them ^(G)and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. ^21 (H)Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

²² “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. ^(I)So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon ^(J)and the land of Og king of Bashan. ²³ You multiplied their children ^(K)as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess. ^24 (L)So the descendants went in and possessed the land, ^(M)and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. ²⁵ And they captured ^(N)fortified cities and ^(O)a rich land, and took possession of ^(P)houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled ^(Q)and became fat and delighted themselves in ^(R)your great goodness.